The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources.
Barack Obama’s approach to surveillance is now regarded as one of the primary issues facing campaigners for civil liberties.
Besides denying people their privacy on such a scale, in the US is behaving unconstituionally. Those who have broken the constitution are the very ones demanding the person who exposed their criminality be locked up. Kafka would have relished this.
As bloggers, foreign diplomats and freedom of information evangelists revel in what twitter invariably named #cablegate, concern should also be expressed for the long term consequences of the leak by a disillusioned US military officer.